I have been extremely successful in my professional career so far, but I want to take the opportunity to change career paths.

I completely understand that it can be annoying, and I don't enjoy receiving cold calls outside of my industry.

Interest rates are extremely low and less people are getting out to see properties.

I requested a Redemption of my funds from fundrise back in January and they won't release them.Here is what they said:Fundrise Advisors, in our capacity as Manager of the eREITs and eFunds, has determined that it is necessary at this time to suspend the processing and fulfillment of redemption requests.While under normal market conditions, we seek to provide investors with the ability to redeem their investments on a regular basis, during times of financial crisis or extreme uncertainty, it is absolutely critical that we suspend redemptions in order to protect the interests of all our investors.As Manager, we have an obligation to make decisions based upon what is best for the entire Fundrise investor community and must always put the priorities of the whole above any one individual.Fundamentally, Fundrise investors own real property, which is simply not liquid. 

Eventually, you'll may very well branch out to other areas or property types, but for me, having a super narrow focus (SFR with at least 3BR and 1000sq ft in the 53222 zip code) was extremely helpful in getting me to take action on my first property. 

Cold calling this list to find out if they have any interest in selling2.

BRRRR has emerged as a viable strategy for purchasing properties that need renovation at a discount, renovating them and then either keeping them and making money on the cash flow or selling them and making money on the difference between the new appraised value which hopefully is the sales price and the old purchase price/renovation amount and extremely important, the carrying costs.Ultimately, it's a math problem to see if you will even acquire the property and hopefully nothing goes south that you didn't anticipate.Assembling your team of professionals to help you be a success at this is crucial. 

I started doing cold calling, networking with brokers and organizing my own meetups, see how that goes.

Just wanted to see if I was being too cold in the midst of a national emergency.

Need to find a way to make things happen hopefully without using a bank and their extremely high interest rates.I know the educational resources are out there and I will do my homework but I wanted to try the forum out and maybe network a bit.